Travois Construction The travois consisted of two long, wooden poles, each lashed to the sides of the dog or horse, often with a leather harness. Secured with sinew, a basket or platform was suspended between the two poles that dragged behind the animal. What pulled a travois? Pulled by dogs Read more…
Before roads connected the towns of colonial America, the saddle horse was the principal means of transportation, and Rhode Island served as the main source for excellent horses. Did colonists have horses? Not native to the American continent, horses were introduced by Europeans who ventured across the ocean. In the Read more…
Ownership of horses was a major status symbol to the Celts, as well as other early peoples. Horses were, and still are, relatively costly to maintain, and wherever their use became widespread, a social division opened up between those who could afford to keep them and those who could not. Read more…
Genetic evidence indicates that domestication of the modern horse’s ancestors likely occurred in an area known as the Volga-Don, in the Pontic–Caspian steppe region of Western Eurasia, around 2200 BCE. From there, use of horses spread across Eurasia for transportation, agricultural work, and warfare. When did horses exist in Europe? Read more…
Fun facts you may or may not know about Heartland and its cast. The head writer, Heather Conkey is not actually a horse person. With the help of research, writers, the wranglers, and others they still put together a very accurate show. How realistic is Heartland? does the methods they Read more…
Genetic evidence indicates that domestication of the modern horse’s ancestors likely occurred in an area known as the Volga-Don, in the Pontic–Caspian steppe region of Western Eurasia, around 2200 BCE. From there, use of horses spread across Eurasia for transportation, agricultural work, and warfare. When did Europe start using horses? Read more…
Written by Mick Jagger and his crusty cohort Keith Richards, the song was first given to my beloved pal Gram Parsons for his band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, to record for their 1970 Burrito Deluxe album. Who really wrote the song Wild Horses? Wild Horses (Rolling Stones song) “Wild Horses” Read more…
Horses were first domesticated in the Eurasian steppe before being introduced to the rest of the world. Horses are not native to India. A good amount of evidence shows that horses were first domesticated about 5,500 years ago in parts of Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Did they have horses in Read more…
I now have on my computer the Stones’ original version of “Wild Horses,” from 1971’s Sticky Fingers LP, and eighteen different covers, up to and including a performance by the University of Pennsylvania’s a capella group. Who did the original version of Wild Horses? The Flying Burrito BrothersThe first issued Read more…
While Mick Jagger claims that the song isn’t about Marianne Faithfull (he wrote the verses), Faithfull claims that it was her who said to Jagger after awakening from a drug-induced coma in 1969, “Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.” This wasn’t the only song on Sticky Fingers that Faithfull helped Read more…